@Article{Varga2015, author = "Varga, Adrienn and Vincze, Csaba", title = "Nontrivial solutions of linear functional equations: methods and examples", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2015", volume = "35", number = "6", pages = "957--972", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.6.957", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.6.957", abstract = "For a wide class of linear functional equations the solutions are generalized polynomials. The existence of non-trivial monomial terms of the solution strongly depends on the algebraic properties of some related families of parameters. As a continuation of the previous work [A. Varga, Cs. Vincze, G. Kiss, Algebraic methods for the solution of linear functional equations, Acta Math. Hungar.] we are going to present constructive algebraic methods of the solution in some special cases. Explicit examples will be also given.", keywords = "linear functional equations, spectral analysis, field homomorphisms", issn = "1232-9274" }